Amy Grant: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Dec. 17, 2018, Lars Gotrich Growing up in the 90s, there was never a Christmas without Amy Grant s music. Home for Christmas, in particular, was a favorite around our household, its stringswept nostalgia wrapped around the family den like a warm blanket and a plate of cookies. So when I invited the Nashville pop singer to perform our annual holiday Tiny Desk, I had to bring my mom. You could almost map Grant s fabulous fourdecade career by those Christmas records (four in total, five if you count her reading of Jimmy Webb s The Animals Christmas with Art Garfunkel). In them, you not only hear an artist progress from 80s synthpop to lush string arrangements to a contemporary Nashville sound but as a person, as her own feelings and faith surrounding the season evolve with a mixture of melancholy and cheer. As I ve gotten older, sometimes I ve realized the bravest thing you can do at Christmas is go home, she tells the Tiny Desk audience after performing To Be Together, from 2016 s cozy, yet